The title of this TOK Paper is gThere are many different authorities, including academics, politicians, global organizations and companies, who make knowledge claims. As an experienced TOK student, what criteria do you use to distinguish between knowledge, opinion and propaganda? g. It will be shown in this paper that there are many authorities that make knowledge claims and counter claims, but as an experienced critical thinkers we should be able to distinguish between opinion, knowledge and propaganda. There are criteria that can be applied to distinguish between knowledge, propaganda and opinion. This paper will define knowledge, opinion and propaganda and the differences and similarities in them and how to distinguish between them.

Many different authorities in the world make their knowledge claims. Claims are not always be true because there are also the counter claims. Itfs hard to see which one is false and the other...